Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-20
NO. 30.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Obligatory military service in Bel
| gium is TO be made thirteen years.
Reports OF the discovery of coal
| come from numerous counties in
Kansas.
"A station on the Wnkesbarre and
| Western railroad in Pennsylvania is
named LET 'er CO..
The brain of the late Professor
| Edward Onley, of the Michigan Uni
versity, weighed 81 ounces.
"A parrot owned by a Chicago man
/ is declared by the latter TO be 100 years
Old, as proven by family letters.
-Epauletles, after q suppression of
! eighteen months, are to be- restored to
| infantry officers of the French army.
The Council OF the University of
! Melbourne has decided, by a large ma
! JOrlty, to admit women as students OF
! medicine.
By means Of counterfeit fractional
| tickets well known lottery is said to
have been swindled out CT $50, 900 after
! its last drawing
Mosquitoes, according to recent
| bulletin OF the United States Fisa
Commission, are deadly enemy to
! young brook trout.
| There We're 4S2 works of fiction
| published in this country last year, as
| against Al religious books and 10
! biographical ones.
-AIajoritfes are Locked for in both
| branches OF the Maine Legislature in
| favor OF 4 bill abolishing capital pun
| lshmentin that State.
The Mayor of Albany, New YORK.
has vetoed an ordinance giving police
| officers the right TO kill uuInuzzled
dogs during the dog days"
Australians receive more mail
matter than any other people, tie an
| nual average being twenty-four postal
cards and letters TO each persOn.
| -Rev- John Jasper says lie has
! preached his famous '-SUn do mOve''
| sermon about hundred times since
! 1878, when he first became famous by
The library of the British Museum,
| it IS stated, now contains more than
100000 books, which occupy three
miles lineal Of bookcases eight feet
high.
The waters along the shore on the
| north and east sides Of Long Island
are swarming with pike and fiat FISH.
The season Is unusually early this
year.
In tuning piano, IN Birmingham,
England, lately, to accord with an
organ in a neighboring town, the tele-
phone was successfully brought into
! reQuisitlOn.
An estate in New Mexico Is stated
10 contain l 500 600 acres, which are
owned in fee simple by single propri-
etor, and IS said to be the largest thus
owned in the world.
DIR. J. .. B;;-l.. 81 81 :l1:. al11:. s.ss.5..=l stat
90 5TseJ -v7t,- 81 If5s7--,,.---eeriously
Ill at his home on the Heights from
blood poisoning. resulting from an op-
Grafton at the hospital.
New York has now an ordinance
compelling bicycle and tricycle. riders
to carry light and a. alarm bell wien
riding by night through the streets and
parks of the city.
Josef Hcfmann, the 9-year-Old Po-
lish musician, continues to astouish
London audiences with his remarkable
performances, and still more remark
able musical compositions.
"A well 80 feet deep on a farm III
Fayette County, West Virginia, IS
1tUO feet above New River, bat IS said
to rise and fail with that stream in
some incompgeLeusibIe way.
"A horse disease IS causing trouble
IN various localities il Ulster and ad-
joining counties, in New York. sew
eral valuable horses have been ordered
SHOT by the local boards of health.
-Asbury Park, New Jersey. has a
| new beach superintendent, her ex-
! postmaster, whose duty it wIu lie TO
see that iudecoTOus bathing costumes
shall not be worn during the season.
y reckless man, in the opin-
| ion 0G the Atchis0n Chausasl,
GiyJt, Is one who appears on The street
without his coat ana with a. 10. Of ter
. fTat- To-
An electrical current that struck a
town at Nyack. New NCTk, during a
storm recently, Is said 10 have violently
/ removed slipper from the foot OF
13-year-old girl without ImiurInE her.
-Guiteau's head cannot Je on eXLib-
| i'iOn anywhere, the authorities of the
! National Museum in Washington say,
| because his skeleton, skull and all, Is
IN the museum, though not probably
! exhibited.
There IS 4 Virginia law, passed
many ycaIs ago, but still eNtaut. which
imposes a Lne OF fifty pounds of to-
DaccO on a man ahSeutiug himself from
church for ono month without valid
excuse.
"A Mrs. Jacobus, who IS said 10
have been the nurse OF President
Cleveland, died few days ago 1T Cald-
1875, and had been blind aud par2lyyG
Tor over year.
"A deacon CT o1T.-,5u.-, Indiana,
has been expelled from the church fer
declaring his belief that the world Is
one million years Old, and that it IS
likely to stand for another million
years before the Judgment dag comes.
Miss Agnes Ramsey, daughter Of
( a Scotch barOnet, has beaten all the
male students in classics thIs year, 1T
Oxford, England, College, and was the
only one to pass in that division, II is
stated.
Noah Webster's spelling book,
which the author was first enabled to
publish in 17Si by the aid of a loan
from Joel Barlow, became an Imme-
date success. The next year the sales
averaged 500 copies a week. In 1871
1000, coo copies had been sold, and
after that the sales for long period
averaged 600, 900.
An interesting douhle-wedding IS
reported from Shelby, North Carolina,
where, says the despatch, Hillary Jen-
nings was married TO Mrs. Julia Jolly,
and the bridegrOOm'S son was united
in marriage with Mrs. JOlly'S daughter.
D ! Rev. Samuel Hunter ofIiciated.
"A woman employed as a weaver In
, ! a mill at Lowell deposited $40 in the
! I Lowell Institution for Savings in 1882.
, At various times between that year and
l 1852, she aided 10 the deposit until il
amounted to Sl53. In 1875 the princi-
) pal. with dividends earned, amounted
; to Slt06. She has since drawn out
j. 500, and the whole amount to her
y credit in 1884 was Sl027. She has
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